CfP: ECOOP WS on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing

			  2nd CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

			       7th Workshop on
  PARALLEL/HIGH-PERFORMANCE OBJECT-ORIENTED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (POOSC'08)
				 8 July 2008
				    at the
       EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (ECOOP 2008)
			Paphos-Cyprus, 7-11 July 2008

		      http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/poosc08/

While object-oriented programming is being embraced in industry, particularly
in the form of C++ and to an increasing extent Java and Python, its acceptance
by the parallel scientific programming community is still tentative. In this
latter domain performance is invariably of paramount importance, where even
C++ is considered suspect, primarily because of real or perceived loss of
performance.  On the other hand, various factors practically dictate the use
of language features that provide higher level abstractions than do C or older
FORTRAN standards.  These include increasingly complex physics models,
numerical algorithms, and hardware--deep memory hierarchies,
exponentially-increasing numbers of processors, and the advent of multi- and
many-core processors and heterogeneous architectures.

This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in this
growing field to `compare notes' on their work. The emphasis is on identifying
specific problems impeding greater acceptance and widespread use of
object-oriented programming in scientific computing; proposed and implemented
solutions to these problems; and new or novel approaches, techniques or idioms
for scientific and/or parallel computing.  Presentations of work in progress